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Widow maker is an alternative name for the anterior interventricular branch of the left coronary artery. [9] [3] The name widow maker may also apply to the left coronary artery [10] or severe occlusions to that artery. [11] [12] This term is used because the left main coronary and/or the left anterior descending supply blood to large areas of ...
Treatment is as per an ST elevation MI (STEMI), with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) being preferred. [1] [4] De Winter syndrome is uncommon, representing about 2 to 3% of people with anterior MIs. [1] Males are more commonly affected than females. [1] It was first described in 2008 by Robbert J. de Winter. [1] [2]
Widow-Maker, Pecos Bill's horse in American folklore; Widowmaker, a military unit in Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 3; Widow-maker, a Decepticon heavy from Marvel's Transformers franchise; Widowmaker , a character from the 2016 video game; The Widowmaker, an ace starfighter pilot in the video game Colony Wars: Vengeance
Specifically, Casalan Bittle had a 100% blockage in the main artery in the heart (the left anterior descending artery), a condition sometimes called a widow-maker heart attack. Doctors placed a ...
His heart attack was at age 55. I had my first CCS at about the same age, and it revealed my “widow maker” problem. In other words, my arteries at age 35 were clogging rapidly and calcifying ...
Testing showed that Prewitt had a widow maker heart attack. “I was able to be brought back,” Prewitt says, adding that he regained consciousness about 24 hours later. Widow maker heart attack
Widowmaker in New Mexico. In forestry, a widowmaker or fool killer is a detached or broken limb or tree top. The name indicates that such objects can kill forest workers by falling on them, thus "making widows" of their spouses.
Man, 30, thought he had heat exhaustion, then pneumonia when he was short of breath. He had a widow maker heart attack, was in heart failure, had 3 strokes.